How was Gdium's Hackathon

by Vincent-Xavier JUMEL May 25, 2009 - 15:25

Parinux (http://www.parinux.org), the parisian Free Software User Group held a Gdium hackathon last week end in Paris.We were hosted by Bellinux (http://bellinux.org), an other parisian organisation which promotes Free Software.

The 8 attendees met on late Saturday morning and Patrick gave us an insight on the Gdium project, why do they choose MIPS processor etc. Three of the participant had never built a rpm, so they also discovered RPM format in the details. After a bit of trolling about RPM spec files, most of us where looking to scores of lines on the 10" Gdium screen.

baud123 made some commentaries on Gdium : http://cookerspot.tuxfamily.org/wikka.php?wakka=Blog20090508GdiumDiscovery http://cookerspot.tuxfamily.org/wikka.php?wakka=CompileGdium

We left around 09:00 pm, most of the machine compiling huge projects, such as qt4.5, Battle for Wesnoth or WebKit.

On Sunday, we came back around 11:00 am to see that most of the compilations failed, so we where bound to respawn them, loosing precious time. Most of us didn't achieve the compilation for 18:00 pm end of the Hackathon. We uploaded packages on http://gdium.vincentxavier.lautre.net/.

By 5:00pm, participants voted to elected the two proeminent packagers. Every one first described the packages he tried to build, and how he succeed or failed.

Natacha Porté (http://instinctive.eu) ported TuxTyping, a software designed to learn typing with Tux and Collatinus, a software to translate Latin.Collatinus where a bit tricky, since there wre no rpm to start with and the soft was initially designed for Windows. Collatinus wanted some text files to live in /usr/bin/ so, some patching was to be done. She won a Gdium

Emmanuel Seyman won the second Gdium for his efforts in porting some Perl::Modules, Guten, a software to download and read books from http://gutenberg.org and a software to pronounce words.

baud123 ported pysycache an intuitive game for kids, and did some work on optimizing xcas/giac

coucouf ported w3m, htop

Comte0 ported mtr and tried to package libWebkit-gtk to build midori.

French comment :

French comment : http://instinctive.eu/weblog/hackathon

by Vincent-Xavier JUMEL May 26, 2009 - 12:56

Yet another weblog in french

Yet another weblog in french : http://thetys-retz.net/~endymion/trackback/301

by Vincent-Xavier JUMEL May 26, 2009 - 15:29

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